Industry committee  It was to both. We commissioned a study with the CRTC, which is available, and some of the results are shown in the CRTC monitoring report. We have found now that both for the wire line and for the wireless, our rates are lower than in the U.S.

Industry committee  In terms of the contracts, that's a business model by which there is a subsidy for the handset that is acquired by the consumer. Instead of paying the full price for the handset when you purchase the device, you essentially pay it off over time. That is a particular business mode

Industry committee  I would say the technology is continually improving, and it can be expected that it will continue to make breakthroughs that will open up new possibilities. In the cases where there are unconnected households right now, it's often a very physical aspect of geography—there is som

Industry committee  I would say that overall we're looking at having better prices. Increased competition leads to innovation and better services, and it has an overall positive impact on consumers. Since 2008, when we ended the AWS set-aside, we have seen a 10% decrease in wireless prices. Now our

Industry committee  I would say that the government took action last year to liberalize the foreign investment restrictions for companies with less than 10%. We've opened up the market in terms of creating greater access to capital, and the market will be responding accordingly. As I noted, we do ha

Industry committee  Certainly satellite offers great possibilities for the very remote areas. With the new technologies, as I mentioned earlier, we see what is called a “10 times” throughput increase in the speeds that can be achieved. Recently we had two of these high-speed satellites launched. I

Industry committee  We have a number of companies. Of course we have Telesat, and we also have companies that offer services using satellites. Barrett Xplore certainly has been a leader in this regard.

Industry committee  I would say the mobile broadband certainly is giving a whole new way for people to access broadband. The traditional technologies of cable and telco upgrading to fibre to the node are still able to get very high speeds going into the home, using cable and the telco equipment. But

Industry committee  The auction rules for the 700 auction were announced. Those rules are designed so that there will be a cap. One block will be available to a new entrant. The government is also going to be consulting overall on its approach to transfers of spectrum. We just introduced a consultat

Industry committee  In Australia's case, the investment was mostly public. The graph shows both: public and private investments. It's not just private sector investments. For Australia, they are actually investing up to $43 million in their broadband networks, of which, at this point, the majority

Industry committee  It's actually due to the lack of competition in Australia. There, the dominant company is Telstra. There isn't enough private sector investment. It's a deficiency in the Australian market. In Canada, on the contrary, just as in the United States, we do have very good competitio

Industry committee  We have a very good telecommunications infrastructure compared to other countries. If you look at what we consider to be 30-megabit coverage, for example, we are in fact at the very top of the OECD in that coverage. We're ahead of the U.S. in that coverage. We're ahead of most of

Industry committee  Thank you for that question. Yes, we already have broad coverage called HSPA networks. It has very good coverage of the wireless networks, up to 98%. In the 700-megahertz auction that is coming up, there is a condition by which if a company acquires two blocks of that spectrum,

Industry committee  That would be an outcome of the option. That was one of the considerations in the option design, that it would be one of the outcomes, to have access to two blocks. It could be either acquiring the spectrum directly or having access to two blocks.

Industry committee  That's right.